About

Hi there!

Welcome to my online home.

My real-world home at the moment is in Australia. Before that, it was in Vanuatu. Before that, Laos. Before that, Los Angeles…

Yep, I’ve changed homes a lot. So far, however, I’ve managed not to change marriages.

I’ve been married to Mike for 15 years and we have two sons. Yes, our eldest is just as much of a live-wire as he appears in that photo. No, Mike and I have no idea how we managed to produce two red-heads. Life is full of mystery, isn’t it?

My journey to Mike and two red-headed kids began when a stranger working in Papua New Guinea started writing me letters. The story of how Mike and I met is so wonderfully strange that I wrote an award-winning memoir about it. Find out more about Love At The Speed Of Email here.

Extraordinary love story aside, I’ve also done some other interesting things.

I trained as a forensic psychologist and then worked with the state police, in a maximum-security men’s prison, and on a child death review team. That all got super heavy, so I took a break, got a masters degree in International Peace Studies from Notre Dame University, and wrote My Hands Came Away Red–a novel about teenagers who get caught up in a civil war in Indonesia. Then I moved to Los Angeles and began working as a stress and resilience specialist with humanitarian workers around the world.

After I met and married Mike, we moved to Laos, and then Vanuatu. Along the way we had the two aforementioned red-heads. And let me tell you, I have never needed good stress management and resilience-building strategies more than since I’ve become a parent.

#truth.

I’m glad you’re here! If you’re interested stress and resilience, parenting, neurodivergence, and other complicated joys in life I hope you’re find me on facebook or instagram and stay connected.

Thanks for stopping by,